Had my father been worse I had intended to lock him up a prisoner in his own room.

As it was, I took him silently and stealthily through the village and delivered him up then and there into the hands of the watch.
"This villain secured, it only remained to make sure of the other two.
And this, as it happened, was a very easy task.

For both, exhausted by their long, forced march and utterly benumbed by the cold, had fallen into a drowsy stupor under the hedge where they had been left, crouching beside my faithful steed for warmth.

In this state it was simple work to secure them and march them off to custody, where at any rate they were not less comfortable for a time than they had been.
"A further visit next morning to the `tower by the river,' which was well known to the watch as a rendezvous of thieves, served to secure the rest of the conspirators: and the law of the land shortly afterwards put it out of their power one and all to practise their wicked craft again.
"As for me, that night taught me a lesson or two that I've not forgotten to this day, and which in my turn I've tried to teach to some of you here.

I went back to Ogilby a wiser man than I had left it, and, thank God, a better one." "And what did the poor horse do ?" asked the youngest of the Culvertons.
"Why, he carried me back as merrily as if he'd never seen snow in all his life.".